using wxpython with non-GUI applications

wxPython Users
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Threads. 1) Run wx.PySimpleApp().MainLoop() in a separate thread, or (2)
run your code in another thread (mainloop is cpu time-friendly). Note, use
PostEvent to get messages from your thread into the Gui event framework.
Just hide your form when.

import wx
import wx.lib.newevent

class AsyncCall:
  from threading import Event
  """ Runs a callable through parent's thread of MainLoop.
  Code may wait() on self.complete for self.result to contain
  the result of callable(*args,**kwargs). It is set upon
completion."""
  def __init__( self,parent,callable,*args,**kwargs ):
    (AsyncEvent, EVT_ASYNCCALL) = wx.lib.newevent.NewEvent()
    parent.Bind( EVT_ASYNCCALL, self.OnAsyncCall )
    self.result, self.complete = None, self.Event()
    self.callable, self.args, self.kwargs = callable, args,
kwargs
    wx.PostEvent( parent, AsyncEvent())
  def OnAsyncCall( self,evt ):
    self.result=self.callable(*self.args,**self.kwargs)
    self.complete.set()
  def Wait( self ):
    self.complete.wait()

Which IMO should appear in the library; the DelayedResult in the demo is not
very good.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Burnett [mailto:burnettmn@ornl.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:48 PM
Subject: [wxPython-users] using wxpython with non-GUI applications

I have python code that runs in a non-GUI environment (i.e., command
line) for doing complex computations. I would like to display the
periodic results of the computations graphically. Wxpython includes
the graphical tools I need to display the results, but it is designed
for event driven windows applications. Can wxpython be used for my
minimal graphics needs, or is there some other tool that would be
more appropriate?

Mike Burnett